{"id":8900,"date":"2010-10-26T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8900"},"modified":"2010-10-18T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T20:22:20","slug":"listening-to-chet-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/listening-to-chet-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Chet the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have found a new series to listen to as I drive around the Quad Cities and beyond.\u00a0 It is the “Chet and Bernie Series”\u00a0 from Spencer Quinn who introduces the world to two-legged Bernie, a down in his luck private detective and his four-legged pal Chet\u2014a canine with a penchant for solving mysteries. In an interview with the author on how he decided on this series<\/p>\n

Q. How did you come to write Dog on It<\/strong><\/a>?<\/em><\/dt>\n
A. My wife said, How about doing something with dogs? The basic building blocks came to me right there at the kitchen table: two detective pals; narration by the four-legged one; and all in the<\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/em> first person, which I’d never tried before in a novel. Plus the most important thing – Chet would not be a talking dog (or be undoggy in any way) but would be a narrating dog. Anything that thinks and has memory must have a narrative going on inside. I went to the office – over the garage, commuting distance fifteen feet – and wrote the first page. Then I wanted to know what happened next.<\/em><\/dd>\n

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Chet is a mixed breed law academy dropout. Bernie is a retired police officer trying to be a private detective. Between Bernie’s divorce, Charlie his sone and Susie Sanchez, Bernie’s reporter girlfriend, Chet can’t catch a nap and is always on the alert. Chet has a dry sense of humor, which the reader, Jim \"\"<\/a>Frangoine, does well.<\/p>\n

These are wonderful books for those who enjoy the narrator being the four legged kind.<\/p>\n

There are three books in teh series so far:\u00a0 Dog on It,<\/a> Thereby Hangs a Tail<\/a><\/strong><\/em> <\/a>and the newest book, To Fetch a Thief.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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